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Clashes in Tunisia over rising prices

Stone-throwing demonstrators protesting against rising living costs and unemployment have clashed with police in Tunisia's central town of Redeyef over the past three days, trade union sources said on Thursday.

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  • Published: 21:37 April 11, 2008
  • Gulf News

Tunis: Stone-throwing demonstrators protesting against rising living costs and unemployment have clashed with police in Tunisia's central town of Redeyef over the past three days, trade union sources said on Thursday.

Police arrested more than 20 people over the violence in Redeyef, situated in the phosphate mining region of Gasfa, but subsequently freed a number, said the sources.

An official source, who also declined to be named, said eight people had been charged with public disorder and damaging property. No comment was immediately available from the government.

Tunisia has North Africa's biggest middle class but after years of improving living standards the rising prices of imported commodities are making people feel poorer.

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